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The Defector Selected into 7 World Festivals and Nominated for CSC Award


Defector Facebook banner shot March 8

We’re also delighted to announce that our DP – Stephen Chung – has been nominated for Best Documentary Cinematography for the 56th Annual Canadian Society of Cinematographers’ Awards for his amazing work on The Defector: Escape from North Korea. Please join us in congratulating him. We’ll keep you posted as the drum rolls…


Upcoming Festivals for The Defector:

  1. SXSW Interactive Festival, Austin, Texas, March 8-17

  2. Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, Greece, March 15th – 24th, 2013

  3. Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, Sebastopol, California, March 23rd, 2013

  4. Documentary Edge Film Festival, New Zealand, April 11th – 21st, Auckland; May 9th – 19th, Wellington

  5. Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival, Qatar, April 18th – 21st, 2013

  6. Plus one we can’t tell you about yet.

  7. The Defector’s World premiere was at IDFA 2012

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